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How methyl bromide is preferentially converted to methyl isocyanide?

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It can be done by treating the methyl bromide with alcoholic silver cyanide.
`CH_(3)Br+underset("Alc.")(AgCN)rarrundersetunderset("isocyanide")("Methyl")(CH_(3)NC)+AgBr`
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